Example sentences of "before she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before she reached the place , the car was stopped by the military . |
| 2 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 3 | Why Martha transferred the money before she put her apron on I do n't know — I suppose it 's just that everyone has their own little routines for doing things . |
| 4 | Three days before she came back , I cleaned the flat , bought a new jacket and five bright new cotton shirts , stayed sober , worked like hell on the magazine in a way that made Francis ‘ gasp and stretch his eyes ’ . |
| 5 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 6 | The night before she had woken uneasy . |
| 7 | For years afterwards , Jay 's heart gave a lurch every time she passed the place where they parked — Astrid drove the three hundred yards from her house so they could kiss in the car before she went to Timisia . |
| 8 | By the third house she completed ‘ lecher ’ , ‘ libertine ’ and ‘ licentious ’ before she heard Tom mutter : ‘ Rita , please . |
| 9 | Before she began them she prepared a timetable . |
| 10 | Before she left the party , she must look for the witch 's hat . |
| 11 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 12 | Just one wary night , before she goes to America , at Harriet 's weekend cottage in Norfolk . |
| 13 | The Sunday before she had asked him to come to tea . |
| 14 | Harriet had gone straight into property after her A's and left home , funnily enough , before she did . |
| 15 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 16 | She is to me and many others , the best tennis player in the world today , even if she is No 2 it wo n't be long before she is back on top where she belongs . |
| 17 | In The Sleeping Beauty Carabosse shows Aurora what a spindle is for and Aurora later shows how she can use it before she pricks her finger . |
| 18 | This is what Lise does in Mother Simone 's kitchen in La FilleMal Gardeé and Cinderella in her kitchen before she dances with the broom . |
| 19 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 20 | In July , a few weeks before she died , Katherine started High Court proceedings against Mr Egan and his publishing house for breach of copyright . |
| 21 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 22 | I was wearing dresses that showed more than she ever would dare , before she was born . |
| 23 | Or perhaps not before she was born . ’ |
| 24 | Sukova made her work extremely hard before she was able to celebrate a 4-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 victory . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher 's priorities were set before she became party leader . |
| 26 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 27 | She had built up a reputation as ‘ the Iron Lady ’ with some stern condemnations of Soviet Communism and its imperialist designs , before she became Prime Minister . |
| 28 | All humbug is punished sooner or later ; but Nemesis is notoriously slow , and it was a quarter of a century before she struck and the United Kingdom found itself , to the malicious glee of her neighbours , the first signatory state to the Convention to be found guilty of a breach of its terms , in Ulster in 1971 . |
| 29 | Moll 's denunciation of Laxton before she beats him up shows that the thrashing is partly in revenge for his not untypical masculine blend of misogyny and licentiousness ( cf. ii . |
| 30 | But things started going a bit wrong before she could start . |